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Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

(OP)
I am creating a drawing for a wire framed part.
I am creating it using weldment features and the weldment cutlists. When I get to the drawing with the actual cutlist I have four parts that are basically identical. However they are not the same at the 6th decimal place and therefore on the cutlist become four different entities as well. I would like these four to be the same lengths, but modeling can make it very difficult. When I round it off to the 3rd decimal place they all are the same but separate. Is there any way to combine these so that they do not show up as four separate?

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

why aren't they exactly the same? why is there a difference?

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

If they are in different orientations sometimes the system will not see them as the same item either.

The simple solution, depending on your version of SW, is to go into the cut list on the 3-D model and drag and drop items between cut list folders to combine them. I know there is a glitch in SW 08 SP 2 (I think) and 3 (I know) where cut list items cannot be manually moved between folders without working some serious voodoo first.  

Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

(OP)
Well I am trying to model four of the wires as close to the same length as possible, but considering the form and route that they take it is difficult to model them without some minor differences. In fact they are only differing by about .020 . When I have something completed it only needs to within .0625 and we actually round off to the nearest 1/16". So when I model what I am doing I get the wire lengths close and they all fall under the same measurement when I round to 1/16" in fractional units.  

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

Thanks Foofire,

Have you tried Dekker Design's tip on dragging and dropping items between cut list folders to combine them?

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

(OP)
No, haven't even heard of Dekker yet, but will give him a look over.

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

(OP)
Right now I have the wire lengths the same all the way past the 8th decimal farthest for which SW08 will show a difference and they still will not combine. Seems like that would be some kind of option that you could change for your Weldment Cut List.  

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

What Service pack are you running? Service Pack 3, and I believe 2 as well, had a glitch that disabled the ability to manual drag and drop normally. What you had to do was automatically update the current cut list, delete it, then manually create the cut list to have the items combined the way you want. This issue was fixed in Service Pack 4.  

Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

(OP)
Ok, well we are running 2.1 right now and going to update to 4.0 soon. That may very well be the problem.

RE: Solidworks Weldment Cutlist

Attached is a quick and dirty example on how weldment cut list items can be dragged and dropped when the ability to do so is working correctly. I had to zip to to upload unfortunately, and I would recommend you watch it full screen mode, as that's how things will be clearest. This method works for any SW version older than '07 that included weldments and SW 08 SP 0, 1, and 4.
 

Joe Hasik, CSWP
SW 08 x64, SP 3.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

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